Comes with great expectations, most of which, unfortunately are not met.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2021

A dark, brooding piece, Fiennes's film is a fairly trite and superficial rendering of an episode in the life of one of the greatest and most popular writers of all time...

| Aug 13, 2020

Love period pieces. Love Ralph Fiennes. Pacing is a little off and is frustrating to the watching the plot unfold.

| Jun 9, 2020

I am in awe of The Invisible Woman.

| Jan 8, 2020

What's most audacious are the long silences that pervade the drama: a true luxury in a multiplex culture intent on deafening the viewer.

| Aug 7, 2019

Beautifully shot and performed but lacking in clarity, The Invisible Woman is a series of snapshots rather than a coherent whole.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2019

I constantly found myself taking momentary vacations from the story to admire the elaborate furnishings, because whatever British ho-humming the characters on screen were doing was losing its grip on me.

| Original Score: 6.7/10 | Apr 3, 2019

Fine performances from Fiennes, Jones et al, some beautiful visuals and several excellent scenes keep The Invisible Woman interesting and watchable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2019

The Invisible Woman is a quietly compelling chronicle of an uneven but binding relationship.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 17, 2019

Fiennes has crafted one of the more original heritage movies of recent years.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2018

Fiennes ... [is] a hammy, unconvincing Dickens, and his scenes with Jones lack spark.

| Aug 31, 2018

Fiennes' sophomore directorial outing remains little more than Dickens fetishism.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

A dreary disappointment. Were I invisible, [Ralph Fiennes] might be on the receiving end of a few pranks for taking two hours of my life.

| Aug 22, 2018

An elegantly staged British costume drama from the Victorian Age that however failed to move me.

| Original Score: C+ | May 4, 2018

This is everything a period drama almost never is: underplayed, witty, poignant and, above all, real.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2018

Fiennes is excellent -- delivering both the charm, charisma and showmanship we expect and the flaws and the weaknesses we do not.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2017

Far more attentive to visual storytelling than most actors who step behind the camera, Fiennes conveys shifting dynamics through his characters' positions within the frame.

| May 12, 2015

It's unhurried yet confident, familiar yet provocative. With fine cinematography by Robert Hardy (Blitz), most 'Expectations' will, indeed, be met.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2014

The performances are first-rate -- Fiennes and Jones are stellar, as are Kristin Scott Thomas as Nelly's mother and Tom Hollander as playwright Collins -- and the score and period details are sumptuous. But the film still drags.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 10, 2014

The Invisible Woman is a beautiful picture with strong performances, but made unnecessarily convoluted.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 18, 2014